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Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, Vivyan Adair, who is director of the ACCESS Project at Hamilton College, was a guest on WAMC Northeast Public Radio's program 51%, on Thursday, Dec. 12. The show 51% is a weekly half-hour of interviews and features focusing on issues of concern to women. Adair discussed the ACCESS Project at Hamilton College. The archived show can be heard on-line at www.wamc.org with Real Audio or Windows Media. 51% is heard throughout the U. S. on public and community radio stations, some ABC Radio Network stations, Armed Forces Radio stations around the world and on the Internet.

The Hamilton College Choir will perform with the University Glee Club of New York City at its 217th Members Concert on Friday, Jan. 24, at 8 p.m., in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York. Hamilton’s Choir will perform three songs jointly with the Glee Club: "My Lord What a Morning," "Somewhere/Tonight" ("West Side Story"), and "Ride the Chariot." The concert will be followed by an Afterglow reception on the Grand Promenade at Avery Fisher Hall.

The Newman Community will hold its annual Christmas Mass on Sunday, Dec. 15, at 11 p.m. in the Chapel. The Mass will feature music by the Hamilton College Choir, directed by Music Professor G. Roberts Kolb. All are welcome. A reception in the Bristol Campus Center will follow the service.

Michael H. Granof '63, the Ernst and Young Distinguished Centennial Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas at Austin and Distinguished Teaching Professor, will speak about the Enron debacle on Friday, Dec. 13, at 1:30 p.m. in the Chemistry Auditorium. Granof has had several pieces on this subject published in the Op-Ed section of the New York Times. His lecture is sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center speaker series.

"The General from America," a play written by Richard Nelson '72, is currently running off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, through December 22. Nelson directed the production, which tells the story of Benedict Arnold and his famous treason.

The Hamilton College Department of Music will present a concert by the College Orchestra, conducted by Heather Buchman on Thursday, Dec. 12 at 8 p.m., at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts on the campus of Hamilton College. This concert features The Hebrides, also known as Fingal’s Cave, by Felix Mendelssohn, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 and Resighi’s Ancient Airs and Dances Suite III. Colleen Roberts Pellman will be the guest harpsichordist for the Respighi selection.

Associate Professor of Music Michael "Doc" Woods will conduct the Hamilton College Jazz Ensemble in a performance on Wednesday, December 4, at 9 p.m., in Wellin Hall. Free and open to the public. Bringing funk, swing, latin, and our favorite things to the hill.

Assistant Professor of English Dana Luciano published an article, "Passing Shadows: Melancholy Nationality and Black Publicity in Pauline E. Hopkins' Of One Blood, in a collection edited by David Eng and David Kazanjian titled Loss: The Psychic and Social Contexts of Melancholia (University of California Press, 2002).

"Peeling Presents Peel This" will be staged on Saturday, December 7 at 9 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn, Beinecke Student Activity Village as the next performance in the Kirkland Project "Masculinities" series. Peeling uses the performing arts and theater as vehicles for Asian Americans to explore individual stories, community building, leadership, and social activism through creative workshops, staged productions, readings, and related activities. Autobiography becomes a departure point for exploring race, gender, class, ethnicity, age, sexuality, and similar politics facing Asian Americans today. This performance, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Asian Cultural Society, and funded by the Student Assembly. For more information contact the Kirkland Project at 315-859-4288.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Jennifer Day presented a paper, "Home on the Outside: Self and Space in 1960s Petersburg," at the November 2002 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in Pittsburgh.